Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] was [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The hand-loom weaver on the eve of his long decline was much more likely to have been a Methodist than was the mule spinner of the new generation proletariat . |
2 | Could Theo lay his hands on some that was the colour of unbleached muslin or linen ? |
3 | He was in his 30s and was a member of the Royal Irish Regiment . |
4 | In public life , Holford served as Conservative MP for East Gloucestershire from 1854 to 1872 and was a JP , but he took little interest in politics . |
5 | Manoon had organized the abortive " Young Turk " coups of 1981 and 1985 and was the leader of the Class 7 graduates of Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy . |
6 | Yeah that 's right that was the problem |
7 | The floating exchange rate regime has thus become less managed from about 1980 than was the practice in its early days , with the US authorities in particular more reluctant to engage in foreign currency transactions . |
8 | Even to speak of those by-now famous evenings as a coterie is to imply that they were both more formal and more enclosed than was the case . |
9 | When we worked it out as an average that the sheer monitoring and chasing quotes or following up quotes erm and just preparing the documentation , we were n't convinced that was the case at all . |
10 | In R v Exeter Juvenile Court , ex pH and R v Waltham Forest Juvenile Court , ex pB [ 1988 ] FCR 474 , the President of the Family Division held that the welfare of the child was paramount and was the principle which must guide a court in deciding whether to adjourn : it was vital for care proceedings to proceed with great dispatch as any delay involved risk to the child . |
11 | The age and sex distribution in both groups were similar as was the proportion of patients with alcoholic liver disease . |
12 | Unfortunately information on non-completion rates was unavailable as was the data for the non-university sector of higher education . |
13 | But not every intelligence agency is as fortunate as was the DGSE . |
14 | Planning had been his cri de coeur as a Tory rebel in the thirties and was the cornerstone of his political testament , The Middle Way , first published in 1938 . |
15 | ( In fact , it might be said that the use of torture in the ‘ civilised ’ world today is more widespread and certainly much more sophisticated than was the case in the ‘ barbaric ’ Middle Ages . ) |
16 | Opposite that was the hand basin and round in behind the mirrors here was the bathroom . |
17 | Prof Montgomery graduated MD with honours in 1946 and was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Glasgow , the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh , the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Pathologists . |
18 | Cahervillahow ran no race in the Gold Cup but he might be turned on by the National as was the case with Attitude Adjuster who was also trained by Mouse Morris . |
19 | and I thought well , I , I asked cos I was so sure that was a male |
20 | It 's no more astonishing than was the growth of industrialisation in the first place . |
21 | Northampton 's historic market square dates back to 1235 and was the scene of many events and fairs . |
22 | For Whitehouse , Neville 's avowed ‘ revolutionary ’ stance was aimed particularly at the young and innocent and was a form of ‘ ideological warfare ’ from which they needed to be protected . |
23 | Mr Inglis edited the Spectator from 1959 to 1962 and was the author of many books on parapsychology , the paranormal and alternative medicine . |
24 | The fact that nobody wrote and said that he was brilliant and was a genius convinced him that it was n't Robert Bolt who was at fault or the director Noel Willman , but himself as an actor . |
25 | This was well and good as was the promise that it could show how ‘ to cultivate and maintain a positive mind , even in the face of adversity . ’ |
26 | With prescience Ho proclaimed : ‘ Great as was the victory it was no more than a beginning . ’ |
27 | Was Baal truly sovereign or was the Lord ? |
28 | People are seen as being more selfish , aggressive , and less tolerant and happy than was the case a decade ago . |
29 | " As far as Scotland was concerned that was the end of any backwash from that particular programme . |
30 | As far as I was concerned that was an end to it . |